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Sonia Sotomayor still getting gifts from the public

WASHINGTON — Justice Sonia Sotomayor says she is still getting gifts more than two years after her confirmation as the Supreme Court's first Hispanic justice, including a $6,000 "translucent composite print."

Sotomayor, confirmed to the court in 2009, revealed in her financial disclosure form Wednesday she got "gifts of books, art, jewelry and trinkets" from many people in 2011, all of which were less than the $335 amount required to individually disclose. She also noted she received $1,400 in fine china and the $6,000 digital print of important places and things in her life from artist Robert Weingarten.

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Seven other justices also released their financial disclosure forms on Wednesday, which showed book royalty income for Justices Stephen Breyer and Antonin Scalia. Justice Samuel Alito asked for an extension until August.

Let's talk about Clarence Thomas not filing his wife's tax papers because he "didn't understand the tax forms." He failed to report his wife's tax papers for 20 years. He claimed that he was confused and misunderstood a law that has been in place ever since the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 was passed. Turns out she was making over a million dollars through an organization that was profiting from attacking the healthcare reform. So let's tally that up. Here is a case where you have tax evasion, fraud, conflicts of interests, just to name a few. He should recuse himself from this decision for these reasons, but he hasn't. The DEFINITION of corrupt.